Captain Reid "Eeyore" Nannen
United States Marine Corps
15 October 1981- 1 March 2014
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is Freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within.
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest of night;
Spare me no pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again.
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
Gary Claude Stoker
Reid, Sarah, Curtis, Betsy, Peter, & Baby Isla on the way
October 31, 2013
